Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-12-01
ceneral News Items.

General News Items.
The net gold in the treasury is S207,-
16G,020 an increase CT nearly $4,000.
BOO since July 1,
Assistant secretary Muldrow said that
he is not prepared at present to giyo out
tile report OF Agent Armstrong on the
Crow agency and hat there are some
things in it which it may be inexpedient to
publish at any time.
The United States attorney for Washing.
ton Territory has advised the acting com
missioner of the general and office that
the supreme court OF the territory has
granted an injunction asked for by the
general land office to restrain the Northern
Pacific Railroad company from Illegally
cutting timber on public lands. The Unit.
ed States attorney states that the result
OF Judge Jones' decision win be the recov-
cry OF about 500, 900 in trespass suits
now pending against the company.
John a Mcdonald. Conservative, has
been elected to the house OF commons for
Victoria county.
The persons arrested for throwing petit
tons into the cars carriage are Russians
named Kapitiniki and Romberg. They
left Russia to escape military service, and
petitioned to be permitted to return to
Russia without punishment.
The London board Of trade has awarded
a piece OF silver to Capt. Boggs, OF the
American line steamer Indiana, and a sill
yer medal and f2 each to Wilding, Peter.
son and Anthony, seamen, al that vessel,
for rescuing, while on a voyage from Liver.
pool TO Philadelphia. the crew OF the Brit
ish bark Lammerger, from Belfast Tor
Miramichf, which was abandoned Sept. /.
Private letters from the City OF Caste
nala say: Archbishop Raoul has zone to
the United States. The government OF
Guatemala forced him to lease the repub.
lie. The charges against him were insub-
ordination and a tendency to Interfere in
temporal concerns. The bishop retired
with his private fortune of over 500, 600
intact.
1t is not likely that Irving Hall will be
heard again as o section in New York poll
itics. Most OF the men who were members
have associated themselves with Tam.
many and the County.
Mrs. Parsons, wife OF the ~dead'anarcbist,
has decided to open a general store for so
e~ialistic and anarchistie literature in Chi.
cago.
Miss Emma Lazarus, a well known poet
ess and contributor to the principal maya.
zines, died in New York.
Track laying on the Montana Central
was begun on Oct. 16, the day the Mani
toba entered Great Falls. Tho distance
from Great Falls to Helena is ninety-seven
miles; from St. Paul to Helena by this
line, 1,170 miles.
Tie New York state board OF health has
sent notices to the state board OF other
states, giving the names and ages of the
emigrants lately discharged from quaran.
ffaa V.ha "a no fnFa Napr Nnrl horhnr an
the infected ships Alesia and Britannia, in
order that they may keep track OF them
and take proper precautions in case OF any
further danger from Cholera.
The widow OF Lieut.. Harrington, who
persisted in the Custer massacre, has been
missing since 1885 and is supposed by her
relations to be dead. Mrs. Harrington
grieyed over her husbands death until she
became mad. Her delusion was that Lieut..
Harrington had not been killed, but
WAS captured by the Indians. She disap-
peared while visiting friends In Texas, and
is supposed 10 have started out to search
for her husband and to havt been lost or
either starved to death or murdered. Her
relatives nave not made this facts public
until now
Hon. William Robinson Hildied sudden.
ly at Worcester. Mass. He attempted to
sneeze, and in a few minutes was dead.
A Newark Police Captain AMI man,
others are threatened with death by an
archists.
The Prior block at Aberdeen, OAK. was
burned on Saturday the 18Th. The build
ing was owned by c. II. Prior of Mime
apolis. Loss, 81, 600; insured for So, 1000.
At Little Rock, Ark, the G~oodlander
Touring mills and elevator, with $50, 600
bushels OF wheat, were burned. Total loss,
$500, 00O; insurance, S14O, 900. Adjoining
buildings were damaged $4,000.
Mrs. Herman B. Fay, a Undertaking.
medium, was neatly exposed by Boston
unbelievers.
The dead body Of S. II. Williams, a well
known painter, was found at Beloit. Wis,
nearly submerged in water in n ditch near
the Chicago & Northwest,r IN railroad.
Bishop g. T. BedelI of the Episcopal
diocese OF Cleveland, is critically i'll at
Gambler, Ohio. His disease is acute in
Illumination OF the PROSTATE gland.
The bandits i~nfesting the Rio Grande are
being holly pursued and hard pressed by
the Texas rangers and Mexican authorities
acting in conjunction. The most noted
captured and the remaining outlaws ecat.
tered.
At Fort Shaw, Mont, John Cunning. a
private in Company X, Third infantry.
committed suicide in the quarters OF the
company by shooting himself through the
head.
The Jersey county Qll.) poor house,
situated at Jersey vile, Ill.,, burned to the
ground. The inmates were all removed
safely. Loss, 100000,
Mr.. Small, superintendent OF motive
power and machinery OF the Northern
Pacific, is having passenger coaches fitted
up with steam heat TO be run between st.
Pau and Fargo during the winter.
Henry George has arrived in Chicago and
claims that his land theory is obtaining q
strong hold on the people, including those
Of Minnesota.
Coke Brothers e. ~Compsny's No. 2ModeI
breaker. near Hazelton, Pa, was burned.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $50, 600. A
breaker was also destroyed by fire at
DeIano. 1t belonged to the Buck Mount
ain Coal company. Loss, $4,000.
At Omaha, ]. +. Kuhn, a decorative
painter OF considerable local reputation,
blew out his brains with a revolver at his
residence.
Fire destroyed fourteen dwellings in the
village OF Laeoni, Warren county, Iowa.
Frank NJ. Higgins, managing editor OF
the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette, died
OF pneumonia. He was thirty-seyen years
OF age.
An accident occurred on the Cleveland &
Pittsburg railroad in a cut about one mile
above Steubenville, by which two men
were killed and several othersi injured. The
killed were Engineer p. f.. johnson and
Brakeman Hugh Niles, who we're taken
from the wreck dead.
AtCedar Rapids, Iowa, James Oliver
the slayer OF DIR. Kibbee, was sentenced to
eight years in the penitentiary for man
slaughter.